Frank Rosenblatt publications and photographs

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 17-1-3370

Scope and content

Collection contains Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory publications by Frank Rosenblatt amd include " The Perceptron: A Theory of Statistical Separability in Cognitive Systems," January 1958; Research Trends: "The Design of an Intelligent Automaton," Summer 1958; "Technical Memorandum #2, An Anaylsis of Very Large Perceptrons in a Finite Universe," October 1958; "Two Theories of Statistical Separability in the Perceptron", November 1958; and Cognitive Systems Research Program, Report No. 4 Collected Technical Papers Volume 2, July 30, 1963. Also mimeographs of "Digital Application Series No. 2, Control Engineering, January 1956, Solving Scientific Problems" and "Electronic Digital Machines," by A. I. Kitov, Government Publishing House, Moscow, 1956 (2 pp.). Also, a list of publications by Rosenblatt and a folder of 35mm slides of photographs taken by Rosenblatt (travels, people, and buildings).

Dates

1956-1964.

Creator

Cicchinelli, Alexander L. (Collector, Person)
Rosenblatt, Frank, 1928- (Person)
Kitov, A. I. (Anatolii Ivanovich) (Person)
Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

Professor Frank Rosenblatt received a B.A. in 1950 and a Ph.D.in 1956 from Cornell University. From 1955 to 1959 he served as director of the Cognitive Systems Section at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory where he did much of his research with models of brain function and neural networks. In 1958, he described his Perceptron, an electronic device which was constructed along biological principles and which showed an ability to learn. In 1959 he organized the Cognitive Systems Research Program at Cornell University. He died in 1971 at the age of 43.